Robert Knepper is set to co-star in the CW drama pilot Cult. The project, from Warner Bros TV and Fake Empire, centers on Skye (Jessica Lucas), an inquisitive young female production assistant on a wildly popular television show called Cult who, after a rash of disappearances and a likely murder, joins a journalist blogger in investigating the rabid fans of the series who might be re-creating crimes seen on the program in real life. Prison Break and Heroes alum Knepper will play actor Roger Reeves, who portrays charismatic cult leader Billy Grimm on the show-within-a-show. Billy is a charismatic madman who commands his own cult of followers willing to do anything Billy asks of them — including kidnapping and murder. Meanwhile, off-screen Roger is an affable, working actor. Knepper, repped by Innovative Artists and Kramer Management, will next be seen in Universal’s R.I.P.D.

Friday Night Lights‘ Aimee Teegarden has landed the lead in another CW drama pilot, Elizabeth Craft & Sarah Fain’s The Selection. Based on the upcoming series of books by Kiera Cass, The Selection is an epic romance set 300 years in the future that centers on America Singer (Teegarden), a poor young woman who is chosen by lottery to participate in a competition to become the next queen of a war-torn nation at a crossroads. Teegarden is with Innovative.

因飾演《越獄》中T-Bag一角兒走紅全球的羅伯特·克耐普（Robert Lyle Knepper）近日又有新動(dòng)作，他正式加盟了CW試映集《Cult》。

該劇由《緋聞女孩》（Gossip Girl）的一對(duì)制片人出品，資深科幻制片人兼編劇Rockne S. O'Bannon（《遙遠(yuǎn)星際》）打造。在該劇中，一些人神秘失蹤（遇害）后，許多人猜測(cè)一部名叫《Cult》的流行電視劇可能誘發(fā)了這一系列案件。這部電視劇的女制片助理（杰西卡·盧卡斯 飾演）決定和一個(gè)博客作家聯(lián)合調(diào)查狂熱的劇迷，希望查到有人模仿犯罪的證據(jù)。Alona Tal扮演一個(gè)女演員，在這部「流行電視劇」里扮演一名洛杉磯警察。

羅伯特·克耐普扮演演員Roger Reeves，在這部「流行電視劇」中扮演瘋狂的Billy Grimm，運(yùn)用自己的影響力來(lái)左右追隨者（劇迷）的意志，令他們甘心為他做任何事－－包括謀殺和綁架。但在銀屏之外，Roger Reeves是個(gè)和藹可親、工作敬業(yè)的人。該劇的故事情節(jié)存在「三重嵌套」，結(jié)構(gòu)有些復(fù)雜。